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Ch. 5: Zircon

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PRECIOUS STONES.
distinction, and the stone that Werner calls zircon is their jargon of Ceylon.
The colourless crystals of the zircon are the most
valued. They take on an excellent polish, display an adamantine lustre and fire, and will pass for dia­monds if not too closely inspected. The zircon,
accordingly, is sometimes introduced into orna­ments, and sold to inexperienced people as a dia­mond, a particularly gross fraud, inasmuch as the zircon has but a very trifling value. Indeed even an
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